Ramsar COP8 - Brief report and photos: Miscellaneous
| "Wetlands: water, life, and culture" 8th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) Valencia, Spain, 18-26 November 2002 |
Miscellaneous leftover photos from the COP and aftermath

"After 9/11, everything is different now."

Montse Riera and Valerie Higgins, Ramsar registration team, packing up what's left over. Lalli lurking.

Translation teams all departed, cubicles left for the clean-up crews.


Valencia, finally, after 10 days locked in the venue. The photographer slept for an hour on a parkbench just behind that tree in the centre.
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The newly-elected Chairperson of the Ramsar Standing Committee, Slovenia, sighting up a camera in downtown Valencia, recuperating from Ramsar COP8.

A last tapas before collapsing into several weeks of post-COP convalescence: Annette Keller, Tim Jones, Gordana Beltram, Sandra Hails.



